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Sources for Education in Dean

Dean School in 1933 [X504/1]
Dean School in 1933 [X504/1]

The following list gives all the sources relating to education in Dean held by Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service. Due to the terms of the Data Protection Act records containing personal details of living individuals will be closed in total, or in part, depending on the nature of the information.

  • CRT130Dean1: schoolmaster’s diary: 1636;
  • Ch. C. R. 163: Joseph Neal charity: 1702;
  • CRT130Dean2: notes on the school: 1702-1875;
  • WG1109-1110: licence to schoolmaster: 1748;
  • Fisher Microfilm Vol. II page 400: school room lately in south porch of church: 1781
  • WG2878-2919: account book and papers regarding Joseph Neal Charity: 1829-1910;
  • P109/1/2: copy inscription found at the former schoolhouse: 1842;
  • WG2890: letter regarding the erection of the school: c. 1876;
  • SJ842-863: Joseph Neal Charity mentioned in correspondence: 1888-1891;
  • Micf 38/16: microfilmed school logbook: 1898-1934;
  • SMM5/1school managers’ minutes: 1903-1961;
  • E/TE5/1: details of teachers: 1904-1908;
  • E/IN1/1: school inspector’s reports: 1905-1938
  • Micf 38/16: microfilmed school admission register: 1906-1972;
  • CTM17/43: mortgage to purchase the school site: 1907;
  • E/TE5/2: details of teachers: 1908-1912;
  • Micf 38/16: microfilmed punishment book: 1909-1935;
  • X504/1: photograph album presented to retiring headmistress Bessie Smith: 1916-1933;
  • CTM17/73: mortgage: 1926;
  • E/PM3/1/4D: evacuee school attendance register: Saint John the EvangelistRomanCatholicSchool, Islington: 1939;
  • Bedfordshire Magazine XXIV page 320: article on Saint John the EvangelistSchool at Dean: 1939;
  • SMM5/2: headteacher’s reports to school managers: 1953-1973;
  • CCE2760: deeds of Eileen Wade Lower School site: 1955-1978;
  • CA8/642: school maintenance file: 1964-1979;
  • CA2/361: file on the construction of Eileen Wade Lower School: 1970-1976;
  • PY/PH121/1-3: exterior photographs of Eileen Wade Lower School: 1974;
  • BorBTP/76/1013: pland for alterations to convert the old school into a private home: 1976;
  • E/TE3/4: return of teaching staff: 1981;
  • E/SC1/Gen5-6: details of school: 1981;
  • E/SC1/Dean1-4: attempted closure of the school: 1982;
  • SS/CPR3/4/1: Social Services file on Dean Grange School: 1982-1983;
  • Z449/3/1: sale particulars for the Old Schoolhouse: 1983;
  • E/TE3/7: return of teaching staff: 1986;
  • E/MS3/2/1: kitchen and other details: c. 1987;
  • E/TE2/2/L/23: school details: 1989;
  • E.Pu4/4/81: school prospectus: 1995

Eileen Wade Lower School in 1982 [E/SC1/Dean4]
Eileen Wade Lower School in 1982 [E/SC1/Dean4]